chapter 5 biographies, autobiographies & main ideas
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Chapter 5 Biographies, Autobiographies & Main Ideas. Page 242 – First and Third Person Narration. First Person Pronouns Autobiography Nonfiction First Person Point of View Biography Third Person Point of View. First Person. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Chapter 5Biographies, Autobiographies
& Main Ideas
Page 242 – First and Third Person Narration
First Person– Pronouns
Autobiography– Nonfiction– First Person Point of View
Biography– Third Person Point of View
First Person
When was eight years old, aunt
gave a puppy. had been begging
for a dog since was three. named
him ‘Scruffy’ and loved how he played tug-of-
war with clothes.
Third Person
When was eight years old, aunt
gave a puppy. had been begging
for a dog since was three. named
him ‘Scruffy’ and loved how he played tug-of-
war with clothes.
Page 244, First Person Point of View
First Person Point of View
– Narrator (or ‘storyteller’)
– Used first person pronouns I, me, we, us, mine, ours
Main Ideas
– The most important idea in a nonfiction piece.
Storm by Gary Paulsen
“It is always possible to learn from dogs, and in
fact the longer I’m with them, the more I
understand how little I know. But there is
one dog who taught me the most. Just one
dog. Storm. First dog…”
What important idea does Paulsen express in this paragraph?
Storm by Gary Paulsen
“He had taken the hat, quickly dug a hole, buried the hat and smoothed the snow over it, then gone back to sitting, staring ahead, looking completely innocent.When I stopped the sled and picked up the hat, he looked back, saw me put the had on my head, and I swear – smiled. Then he shook his head once and went back to work pulling.”
Finding the Main Idea :
What lesson does Paulsen learn from Storm’s tricks?
Page 254 – Connecting and Clarifying Main Ideas
Main Idea
– The most important thing a writer has to say
about the subject.
– The Main Idea answers the question “What about
it?”
Page 261 – Vocabulary Development
You can often figure out the meaning of a new word by looking at its context – the words or sentences surrounding it.
Page 262 - Autobiographies
Autobiography– The true story of a person’s life written from the
first person point of view. Pronouns – I, we, me, us, mine, ours
Main Idea– Some writers state the main idea of a piece of
writing directly. Others leave it up to you to figure out. This means that you have to use details in the text to infer, or guess.
Page 274 – from The Land I Lost
An autobiography– Using first person narration– Switches to using the third person
Page 286 – A Glory Over Everything
Biography– Told in the third person point of view.– Uses pronouns – he, she, they, it
Page 297 – Question #6
Read and do question #6